Transcript Common Core Resources from the Library of Congress

Using Primary Sources to Teach
Common Core Skills
Teaching with Primary Sources at
Middle Tennessee State University
What is TEACHING WITH
PRIMARY SOURCES?
• Educational Outreach program of the
Library of Congress
• A tool for educators that provides
materials and strategies to use in the
classroom
What does TEACHING WITH
PRIMARY SOURCES do?
• Promotes and
facilitates the use of
the primary sources
available at the Library
of Congress Web site
What can TEACHING WITH PRIMARY
SOURCES offer you?
 EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
 Webcasts & Newsletters on particular topics
 Web site with Primary source sets, Lesson ideas and
Tools for searching and using primary sources
 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES
 Workshops, presentations & institutes
 Professional development credits
 Stipends for high quality lesson plans that use Library
of Congress primary sources to promote student
inquiry
Workshop outline
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Primary source analysis
Common Core “Skill Cards” activity
Fishbowl Analysis activity
Introduction to Web resources
Lunch (on your own)
Book Backdrops activity
More Web resources
Discussion, reflection, evaluation
Primary Source Analysis
I see…
I know…
I wonder…
Philip Weinstein, 8 years old, and an older boy who uses him as a decoy.
Philip sells until 10 & 11 P.M. sometimes. Photo taken at 11 A.M. Philip said
he player [sic?] hookey a week and they fired him. A good many young
truants on the street those days. Location: Nashville, Tennessee.
a. Key Ideas and Details Read
closely to determine what the text
says explicitly ∙ Cite specific textual
evidence ∙ Summarize the key
supporting details and ideas
Key Ideas and Details (con’t)
Make logical inferences∙ Support
conclusions drawn from the text ∙
Determine central ideas or themes
of a text and analyze their
development
c. Integration of Knowledge and
Ideas Analyze how and why
individuals, events and ideas
develop and interact over the
course of a text
b. Craft and Structure Interpret
words and phrases as they are used
in text ∙ Analyze how specific word
choices shape meaning or tone ∙
Analyze the structure of texts ∙
Assess how point of view or purpose
shapes the content and style of text
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas (con’t) Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats ∙ Delineate
and evaluate the argument and specific claims ∙ Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes to build
knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take
CCSS “Skill Cards”
Fishbowl Analysis activity
• Prepare for your role
– Focus group
– Secret roles
• Read the poem, “In the Library”
– http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/charlessimic/inthelibrary.html
• Focus group: primary source analysis
• Secret roles: observation and discussion
• “Thinking About Poems as Historical Artifacts”
– http://www.loc.gov/teachers/lyrical/tools/docs/poems.pdf
Fishbowl Analysis activity
ROLES
• Reporter
• Referencing Text Tallyer
• Comment Tallyer
• Shadower
• Silent Contributor
Introduction to Web Resources
• TPS Journal: “Primary Sources and the
Common Core State Standards”
– http://www.loc.gov/teachers/tps/journal/common_core/
• Teaching with the Library of Congress Blog
– http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/
• Teachers guides and analysis tools
– http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/guides.ht
ml
• Professional development online modules
– http://www.loc.gov/teachers/professionaldevelopment/selfdirected/
Book Backdrops Activity
• Activity incorporating literacy skills with
English/Language Arts and Social Studies
• Professional development plan (online) from
TPS Direct:
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/professionalde
velopment/tpsdirect/pdplanbuilder/exports/
fullexport/Book-Backdrops.pdf
Book Backdrops Activity
• Read book: Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba
Pattillo Beals (1994).
• Examine primary sources.
• How might these sources prompt your
students to think more deeply about the
book?
[Little Rock Nine and Daisy Bates posed in living room]. Layne, Cecil, photographer
CREATED/PUBLISHED [between 1957 and 1960]
Forms part of: Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People Records
Daisy Bates to Roy Wilkins, December 17, 1957, on the
treatment of the Little Rock Nine.
Title: Little Rock, 1959. Mob marching from capitol to Central High / [JTB].
Creator(s): Bledsoe, John T., photographer
Date Created/Published: 1959 Aug. 20.
BOOK:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
(1960)
PRIMARY SOURCES:
Folk song recording:
Come up, Horsey, Hey, Hey
BOOK:
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde (1895)
PRIMARY SOURCES:
BOOK:
Mr. Lincoln’s Whiskers by Karen Winnick
(1999)
PRIMARY SOURCES:
BOOK:
How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis
(1889)
PRIMARY SOURCES:
Gallery Walk
• What are your greatest challenges in
implementing the Common Core standards?
• How are you going to use primary sources to
promote “academic language” learning?
• What excites you about the Common Core
standards?
CONTACT ME!
Stacey Graham
Project Coordinator, Teaching with
Primary Sources - MTSU
Center for Historic Preservation
MTSU Box 80
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
(615) 494-8783
[email protected]